Fabric and-process oe making the same



J. N. WIGGIN.

FABRIC AND PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME. APPLICATION FILED 02c. 23. l9l6.

1,35 2,569, Patented Sept. 14,1920.

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JOSEPH N. WIGGIN, OF EAST ORANGE, NEw JERSEY, ASSIGNOR 'ro H. B. WIGGINS sons COMPANY, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JEE-- SEY.

FABRIC AND-PROCESS OF MAKING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept, 14, 1920.

Application filed December 23, 1916. Serial No. 138,529.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEIH N. WIGGIN, of East Orange, in the county of Essex and in the State of New Jersey, haveinvented'a certain new and useful Improvement in Fabrics and Processes of Making the Same, and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof. The object of my invention has been to provide a fabric which shall be adapted, among other uses, for use in hangings and for dresses, and which shall be both cheap and attractive in appearance, and to such ends my invention consists in the fabric and process of making the same hereinafter specified.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a face view of a fabric embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of Fig. 1 on the line 22 of Fig. 1. I shall illustrate my fabric and the process of making the same by the best embodiment thereof known to me, but itis to be un derstood that such embodiment is typical ,only of many possible embodiments, and

my invention is not to be confined thereto, either as to the fabric or the process of making thesame.

In making my fabric I start with a fabric which is in some way irregularly woven. In the illustrated, embodiment, I have chosen a fabric which is woven of slub yarn. Such a fabric is shown in the design patent of Rollin Wiggin, No. 48,919, April 18, 1916. This fabric, as is well known, is formed in one direction of threads which, at intervals inthe spinning thereof, are not twisted, leaving enlargements a known as slubs. Even though the slubs may occur at regular distances in the lengths of the threads, they almost unavoidably appear irregularly in the woven cloth, because the width of the cloth has no simple relation to the distance between the slubs. This fabric may, if desired, be treated with sizing or other stiffening, in order to enable it more successfully to take and retain'the treatment hereinafter mentioned. The said fabric isalso preferably providedwith an artistic design I) by printing thereon. I then emboss upon the fabric a design which preferably has no definite relation either to the slubs or to the printing. In the present instance, I have used for the embossing the design shown in my Patent No. 1,044,323, November12, 1912. I 7

preferably use a very heavy pressure in thus embossing the fabric, and the fabric, especially in the depressions 0 formed bythe embossing, is polished to some extent.

The result of this process upon the un' .evenly woven fabric is an effect different from that either of the fabric alone or of the printed design, or of the woven design, and one which may be termed a mock effect, because is thus different from any one of the two or three patterns thus used. The effect is difficult to define, but in the illustrated embodiment it softens the appearance so that the printed pattern and slubs look as though they were produced by weaving in threads of different materials from the body of the .goods. IVhile my fabric is comparativelycheap to make, the apliearance is produced of the comparatively expensive fabric known as Rajah silk, or rough thread silk, or that of a linen. Even the sheen of silk is, to some extent, produced by. the aforesaid polishing due to the embossing.

By the term irregular, as used in the claims to distinguish the character of weave, is meant weave which is non-uniform, either in the figure itself or in the repetition of the figure. By the term irregular as used in the claims to distinguish the character of thread, is meant a thread which, consldered by itself, is not of uniform appearance; such as, one which substantially varies in diameter.

Iclaimz 1. A fabric having threads of irregular diameter, the face of which has been com- .pressed.

2.. A fabric having irregular threads and having a design embossed thereon.

3. 1 having depressions embossed in the enlargements of its threads.

4. A fabric 'having irregular threads and having depressions embossed therein.v

5. A fabric having irregular threads and having a design embossed therein, which design is different from any design produced by its weaving.

6. A fabric having threads of irregular diameter, and having a design printed fabric having irregular threads and thereon, said fabric having depressions embossed in its face.

7. A fabric having an irregular Weave, and having a design printed thereon, said fabric having a design embossed thereon, said embossed design being different from said printing.

8. A stiffened fabric woven of irregular threads having a design printed thereon, and having embossing different from said printed design.

9. The process of making a fabric, consisting in embossing, a fabric Woven of irregular threads.

10. The process of making a fabric, consisting in embossing a fabric, Woven of irregular threads, by a design different from any design formed by the Weaving.

11. The process of making a fabric, consistmg in printing a design upon a fabrlc formed of irregular threads; and emboss ing said fabric.

12. The process of making a fabric, consisting. in printing a design upon a fabric formed of irregular threads, and embossing into said fabric a design different from said printed design.

13. A fabric comprising slub yarn, the face of which has been compressed.

14. A fabric comprising slub yarn and having a design embossed thereon.

15; A fabric composed of slub yarn and having a design embossed thereon, which design is different from any design produced by the slub yarn.

16. A fabric comprising slub yarn and having a design printed thereon, said fabric having a design embossed thereon, said embossed design being different from said printing.

17. A stiffened fabric Woven of slub yarn and having a design printed thereon, having embossing different from said printed design.

18. A fabric having threads of non-uniform diameter running in one direction, and having a design embossed thereon.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

JOSEPH N. VVIGGIN.

Vitnesses:

F. T. CRAMER, H. M. BRADLEY. 

